International Aero Engines, a joint engine manufacturing venture between Pratt & Whitney and two other aerospace firms, celebrated Tuesday the first flight of Embraer's new KC-390 military transport aircraft, whose two V2500 engines were assembled...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Venezuelan financier awaiting sentencing in a massive fraud scheme argues in a request for leniency that he was used as a pawn by the South American country's government, saying that he was coerced by corrupt officials into...

HARTFORD - A Venezuelan citizen pleaded guilty in Hartford to threatening Thursday in scores of telephone calls he made to people in Newtown after disturbed gunman Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people two years ago, including 20 first graders at Sandy...

Washington – Rep. Rosa DeLauro is on a collision course with President Obama and some of Connecticut's largest companies over a proposed trade deal with 12 countries on the Pacific Rim from Chile to Japan.DeLauro, D-3rd District, has become a leading...

Mansfield Art Center, on a sparsely populated stretch of Route 32 in Mansfield, looks ordinary from the outside, a green and yellow building set back from the road behind a colorful sign, across the street from an elementary school.
But going inside is...

One of South America's most active volcanoes erupted early Tuesday in southern Chile, spewing heavy smoke into the air as lava surged down its slopes, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people.
The Villarrica volcano erupted around 3 a.m....

Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. The sight of an approaching employer sparked a skirmish, with the men pushing against each other, jostling for attention....

Venezuela has given the U.S. two weeks to slash its diplomatic mission here to less than 20 percent of its current size as tensions between the two nations rise. Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez made the announcement Monday after a rare meeting with the...

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro stepped up his campaign against an "endless coup" he says exists against his government, ordering the U.S. to downsize its embassy in Caracas and detaining a U.S. pilot. The U.S. will...

Venezuela will shrink the size of the U.S. Embassy staff, limit the activities of U.S. diplomats and require American citizens to apply for visas if they want to come bask on the beach. Speaking before a crowd that rallied to protest imperialism,...

One leftist leader replaced another in Uruguay on Sunday, a change seemingly marked more by style than differences in policy as the elegant Tabare Vazquez took over from the famously casual Jose Mujica, who formally left office in rubber-soled brown...

Four North Dakota missionaries were released by Venezuelan authorities Saturday after being detained and questioned for several days, a pastor at their church said. Bruce Dick, lead pastor at Bethel Evangelical Free Church in Devils Lake, said the three...

Four North Dakota missionaries caught up in escalating political tension between the U.S. and Venezuela are expected home on Tuesday after spending a couple of days on a Caribbean Island recovering from their ordeal. The missionaries with Bethel...

Conservative U.S. politicians banned from traveling to Venezuela by socialist President Nicolas Maduro are taking the restriction as a badge of honor. Maduro laid out a series of measures against U.S. diplomats and tourists Saturday night, including a...

Brazilian authorities said Saturday they arrested a self-professed minister put on a U.S. most-wanted list for allegedly molesting two girls in a "Maidens Group" at his religious fellowship in rural Minnesota.
A statement posted on the...